#imanerdandproudofit

Vet ni jag blev inte så lite glad över nyheten att @ginadirawi ska vara årets julvärd 😄😍😄 Gina är ett givet val - så proffsig, rolig, smart, varm och engagerad, precis som en julvärd bör vara. Faktiskt så tycker jag att hon är den i särklass bästa programledaren i svensk TV just nu. En välförtjänt ära för henne, och det ska bli riktigt mysigt att se henne i rutan på julafton. Sen finns det då en drös inskränkta *sverjevenner* som (surprise surprise) nu är mäkta upprörda över att deras *svänska krissna tradishoner* skulle vara hotade pga att Gina är muslim. Det finns så många tankevurpor och knäppheter i resonemangen så jag orkar inte gå in på det ens. Men jag ska säga så här mycket: Gina - precis som alla muslimer jag känner - är betydligt bättre försvarare av de värden som Jesus Kristus vill att vi ska leva efter än någon av dem som nu hatar på Gina. Till dessa har jag bara en sak att säga: yalla läs en bok, förslagsvis Lukasevangeliet 2:1-20, jag slår vad om att ni inte ens vet vad det är... #BackaGina #GinaDirawi #svt

Wtf!?!! This is making my blood boil. Activist Mia Mingus harassed, forced to let airport security destroy essential piece of equipment, all while talked to as though she's a kid in need of an abled persons supervision. Gtfo. 🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼 "TSA trying to make apologetic small talk: so, what do you do? me: I travel North America teaching about the oppression of disabled people." 🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼 (Link in profile) #travellingableism #ableism #funkofobi #disabilityjustice #disability

**PLEASE SHARE*** Everyone who may come into contact with people going to/currently travelling through Europe, share this information widely among the people you meet. The name and logo in this picture does NOT represent Sweden. It is not any Swedish authority or government. It is a fascist political party, which is campaigning to keep refugees from accessing their right to asylum. If you see people wearing this logo on their clothes DO NOT SPEAK TO THEM - THEY WISH YOU HARM! In all cases, be very careful who you listen to for advise and information. If you get handed a flyer with this logo, or any flyer claiming to give information about the possibility of asylum in Sweden, do not believe what it says. This goes especially to activists in #Turkey #Greece (#lesbos), #italy & #Hungary, but also #Serbia #croatia #macedonia/#fyrmacedonia and more. Anyone who can help this information spread to those who need it, please share. #RefugeesWelcome #refugeeswelcometosweden #sweden #refugeecrisis #fuckSD

Well, there's a day for everything, and apparently today - the first Friday of November - is the Global Love Your Lawyer Day. An American invention, naturally, and one that unlike some American "holidays" I must say is well worthy of celebration! So, chill with the lawyer jokes for a day, hug your favourite lawyer, and bring some L❤VE! 💝🎉💖🎊💗🎉💖🎊💗🎉💝 #loveyourlawyerday #globalloveyourlawyerday

Can you resist this cutie smiling like this? Oh don't even try it, I know you can't resist. 😍🐶😍🐶😍🐶😍🐶😍 #Jika #smile #pitbullsofinstagram

The Social democratic youth organisation @ssu_sverige is now launching its fall campaign #öppnaeuropasportar (#openthegatesofeurope). Nobody can claim they are unaware what goes on at the borders of Europe. How our physical and legal barbed wire fences are killing people. The gates must be opened. It is, quite literally, a matter of life and death. The key of course represents the means by which we make the necessary happen. We have the means, we have the keys - the question isn't if we are able, but if we are willing. 🔑🔑🔑

So starstruck! 😍😍😍 #SusanAbulhawa #morningsinjenin #thebluebetweenskyandwater #Palestinagrupperna #ABF #palestine With @leifelof (at ABF Stockholm)

📘📖 So looking forward to reading this - the latest novel by Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa. Her debut novel Mornings in Jenin moved me deep in my core, and from what I hear The Blue Between Sky And Water is as powerful a story - and as masterfully told. Tomorrow night Susan Abulhawa will visit Stockholm and @abfstockholm at ABF-huset, Sveavägen 41, at 6pm, for a conversation with America Vera-Zavala. Don't miss! #Palestine #SusanAbulhawa #morningsinjenin #thebluebetweenskyandwater #ABF #Palestinagrupperna #falasteen #فلسطين #gaza

"I usually never cry but now I can't stop crying. Right now I'm witnessing the greatest hatred I've ever witnessed in my life. Right by our house, 20 families who have fled for their lives would come next week. Now the building is in flames. Racists are burning Sweden. And it's not just buildings that are burning, it's the last drop of human decency. It's possible to think that it's not one of my neighbours who set the building on fire. It's possible to think it's adolescents acting in youthful foolishness. But I was at that meeting the other day when ordinary neighbours were horrified by the fact that refugees would come here. They did it under the guise of caring (the building is too small, there's nothing to do there) but it's the same racism all the time. Not in my backyard. Jimmy Åkesson. You may not have held the matchstick but you're the ones who are fueling the fire. I don't want to live in a country that is this cold. This isn't my country!" 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 I don't know Andreas Magnusson, who wrote this on Facebook last night as the flames were eating away on the old school house that was going to provide a temporary home for people that have already gone through the fires of hell. But I feel the same sorrow mixed with anger and frustration. This was the third fire in just a few days that destroyed a building meant for asylum seekers. To the people holding the literal matchstick, as well as those holding the proverbial one - I pity you for having such small hearts and wicked minds. #FuckRacism #fuckSD #fuckKD #RefugeesWelcome

I don't know how to describe it, and I'm cautious to take it for granted, but I feel it - a change in the wind. Something has happened. And I'm not the only one who says so. Sweden, and Europe is defrosting. Instead of allowing the theme of "we can't", and "they're not our responsibility" to set the tone, whispers and murmurs of "yes we can, yes we must, we are one!" are growing louder and louder. We have momentum now, and I pray, with all my heart I pray, that we can seize it. Today there's a demonstration in Stockholm under the banner "Refugees Welcome". In just a few days almost 30.000 people have attended the event on Facebook. Anyone in, or close to Stockholm, see you at Medborgarplatsen at 4pm! Bring a warm heart, and an umbrella... Let's tear down Fortress Europe! #RefugeesWelcome #vigörvadvikan #asylumisahumanright

Twenty years ago, the world did what it had promised to never do again - it looked on, doing nothing, as thousands of people were murdered and thousands more were forced to flee their homes, simply because of their ethnic and religious affiliation. 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically executed and dumped in mass graves, made victims of the venomous idea that is nationalism. That poison is now spreading in Europe more viciously than it has in a long time, and racist opinions are becoming normalised. Aside from being a minister - at 28 one of the youngest - in the Swedish government, Aida Hadžialić is also a survivor of the war in Bosnia. Her story holds every bit of proof anyone should need of everything that's wrong with nationalism and hatred based on ethnicity or religious affiliation. Never forget Srebrenica. Never stop raising your voice. Always stand up against oppression and persecution. #Srebrenica #NeverForget

Everyone needs to follow this guy. @bydvnlln #baltimore #blacklivesmatter #prayforbaltimore

There should be no doubt what the appropriate word is for the events that took place a hundred years ago, as the Ottoman empire crumbled down during the first world war, and somewhere between 1 and 2 million Armenians, Assyrians/Chaldeans and Greeks were systematically massacred - Genocide. The Swedish parliament voted to recognise it as such five years ago, and it's necessary now that the cabinet - as the government body responsible for such international matters - officially recognises the genocide. It's long overdue. #NeverForget #1915 #armeniangenocide @socialdemokraternas @miljopartiet

🔑 #فلسطين #العودة #حق_العودة #Falasteen #palestine #rightofreturn

Ja jag vet att precis ALLA postar bilder av dessa fluffiga sockervaddsträd just nu, men de är ju så fantastiska! 🌸😍🌸😍🌸😍🌸 En lisa för själen. (på/i Körsbärsträden i Kungsträdgården)

"Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will." Some late night whedonesque words of wisdom. From the mouths of children, drunks, and crazy bloodsuckers... #whedonesque #Buffy #Spike #WilliamTheBloody Via What Would Buffy Do FB

Don't be this person. Just don't. (Stolen from @interasistmen.se @ FB, who in turn stole it from Vice. Who Vice stole it from i don't know.)